# Worst TV Shows of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259 "2005-06-28T19:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/41 "2005-06-29T01:13:43Z")
The entire lineup of the WB. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/42 "2005-06-29T03:20:13Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > How about [The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168373/)? Wow. I didn’t know that Chi McBride played Desmond. I watched all the aired episodes (5-6) of this one, and I actually thought it was pretty funny. > [@HPL](#): > > But it still can’t be worse then [Heil Honey I’m home!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259776/) which I’ve never seen but it looks pretty horrible. This, however, sounds HILARIOUS! From the website: > [@](#): > > An example of the crass, offensive content is a scene in which Adolf is almost suffering a nervous breakdown. His wife Eva tells him to “think happy thoughts”. “Poland!” shouts Hitler, with a devilish grin. Where can I get my hands on a copy of this? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/43 "2005-06-29T03:24:01Z")
**Galactica 1980**. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/44 "2005-06-29T03:26:48Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > The entire lineup of the WB. Wait just one cotton pickin’ minute! I love Veronica Mars! Wait. That’s UPN. Er, as you were! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/45 "2005-06-29T03:40:51Z")
**Swans Crossing** Starring Sarah Michelle Geller! It was some sort of Melrose Place/X Files but, you know, for kids! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/46 "2005-06-29T03:58:39Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > **Swans Crossing** > Starring Sarah Michelle Geller! > > It was some sort of Melrose Place/X Files but, you know, for kids! I remember this show. Was she the one that lived on the submarine? ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/47 "2005-06-29T04:02:02Z")
Anyone remember that sitcom with Chris Elliot… and he finds an alien or something… I remember I think they named him “Spewy” or something? And I think Tea Leoni was in it… God, the horror!! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/48 "2005-06-29T04:05:25Z")
[The Naked Truth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112090/)? And, for the record, I LIKED [Woops!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103583/) ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/49 "2005-06-29T04:05:27Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > But the worse, bar none, of American television: _Hee-Haw_. I defy anyone to find a show more utterly awful in every respect. I shudder just at the thought of it. And somehow, every time we went over to my maternal grandparent’s house, it was always playing, which no doubt contributes to my lack of enthusiasm for that side of the family. > > Hee-ha…oh, no, please. Make it stop! > > Stranger I’ve loathed this show with every fiber of my being from the time I first saw it. I would rather watch the entire run of _Full House_ than be forced to watch even a single episode of this show ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/50 "2005-06-29T04:20:44Z")
> [@Soylent Gene](#): > > - > > Another horrible show (though I never dared watch it) was… > > **Pink Lady and Jeff**. The promos for this late-70s variety-show nightmare (Pink Lady were two japanese girls who not speak English) were sickening. I was about to post that! Good to see someone else recalls it. I watched it, however. Of course, theres always The Alan Thicke Show. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/51 "2005-06-29T04:29:29Z")
_M_A_S_H\* and _All in the Family_ cannot be the worst. I don’t care how bad they got in their later years, they were gold when they were in their respective strides. It isn’t that they were the best things on at the time, it’s that reruns of their good period are often the best things on _now_. Especially if they are played during prime time. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/52 "2005-06-29T04:42:39Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > One of the worst - in the sense of most disappointing - series I can recall was “Timecop.” Absolutely wretched. I had rather enjoyed the movie, even though it had Jean-Claude Van Damme in it, but the series was a large, stinking pile of timecrap. Ha! Everything after Jean-Claude Van Damme is redundant, no? There was a show, the name was something like “Am I Hot?” and Lorenzo Llamas used a laser pen thing to point out where the contestants were ugly. Bad on so many levels. Alf was not a favorite of mine, nor the A-Team. Married with Children and Roseanne, bleh. ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/53 "2005-06-29T04:43:23Z")
I nominate [Quark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077066/). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/54 "2005-06-29T04:43:42Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > Anyone remember that sitcom with Chris Elliot… and he finds an alien or something… I remember I think they named him “Spewy” or something? And I think Tea Leoni was in it… God, the horror!! [Get a Life](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098802/). My seven-year-old self remembers it as not being that bad. I remember my parents enjoying it. _Cop Rock_ was far worse, if what I saw when they broadcast it on Bravo last summer was any indication of its general quality. An interesting concept, but poorly executed. You can only sing about getting doughnuts so many times, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/55 "2005-06-29T04:48:31Z")
Hey! I LIKED _Cop Rock_! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/56 "2005-06-29T05:06:08Z")
Oh, I like _Cop Rock_ too! I remember hearing about it and thinking that it sounded like it could be really interesting, that it could be a whole new way of portraying cop dramas. It fell short of my expectations, though. I think it was the pure '80s electronic feel to the music. (Yes, I realize when it was made.) I think that it would have been much better if they had gone with more traditional music – even straight piano would have been better. I can imagine there not being the budget for it, though. _Cop Rock_ could have done amazing things, but it didn’t. It was still better than reality TV. Blech. Let’s show reality by manufacturing it completely! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/57 "2005-06-29T05:19:22Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > INow **Homeboys in Outer Space** sucked. I watched every episode when it was on. But it may have something to do with the fact that I was in the fourth grade. And “Heil Honey, I’m Home,” I would so watch that. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/58 "2005-06-29T11:50:51Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Also, can’t do much worse than **The Paula Poundstone Show** - cancelled after one episode. **Two episodes.** [http://hometown.aol.com/jamesarey/poundstone5.html](http://hometown.aol.com/jamesarey/poundstone5.html) And I did watch them. The link was for substantiation. In another thread in Cafe you also were talking out of your ass. This may be Cafe Society, but you really shouldn’t spout off with such inaccuracies. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/59 "2005-06-29T12:03:41Z")
Don Adams “Screen Test” American Dad ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/60 "2005-06-29T13:42:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > [The Naked Truth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112090/)? My mother in law was on an episode of that show. She married a chimp. (In the show.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259.md?page=4)